Good day Cuties! Do any of you know what this is for? My husband made it for my aunt. When she found out I had a set, she asked him to make hers.

It's a quilt stand for holding your frame, while hand quilting. You have 4 long boards that are maybe 2x2 X 120 inches. You set them in each stand, at the corner of the quilt, where boards make a +.




Your lining is bigger than needed. You stretch it out smooth, and my grandmother used small tacks to hold it in the frame, but my old aunt said she staples hers. Then you layer with the batting and the top.




I can't remember if my grandmother and her sister would sew large hand basting around the outer edge, after the layers were placed together, but seems like maybe they did. I know when one of them 'had a quilt up' they would get together and quilt it out.




I know after I was married we had a 'quilting party'. Grandma and her sister got the quilt, in the frame one day, in my mothers huge living room. The second day was the party, inviting the ones who knew how to quilt. It really was the size of a full bedspread, going from floor to floor on the sides, and from floor at the foot and up enough to tuck around the pillows, at the head. We quilted all that day. The third day Grandma got it out of the frame, untacking it and I bound the outer edges.




It was made out of feed sacks, that real feed, for the animals came in. I have a photo of it and will try to place it here, if I can locate it later. It had a white background with little flowers all over. It was really pretty and I think we had enough to make her curtains to match. It was made for my oldest daughter, when she was young.




I really wish I had a photo to show you how its set up. Instead of these stands, my grandma would put her frames on the tops of ladder back chairs from the kitchen.




The quilt is full size when you start quilting but you can quilt a block all around the perimeter of the quilt. Then you untack a block wide that you just quilted, at the top/bottom and roll the quilt onto the side frame/board.




You then keep quilting from the sides, untacking top/bottom, rolling until you finish in the middle. That is why it is so important to stretch the layer taut, so you won't end up with it bunched in the middle, as its done last.




It really was great fun. As a kid, we used to play under the quilts when they were up. As a grownup, I enjoyed visiting while we quilted.




I know some Cuties knew what this was for and I hope it brought back happy memories for all of you. To the others, we're never to old to learn. ....Now I'm going to look for the picture of this bedspread/quilt.......Toogie





I found the photo of the one I described, out of feed sacks. It was little blue flowers and about 1978. Mamma made the dogs, pink and blue ones. I made the doll on left......no reason the child never liked dolls!!!-lol- it looks scary-lol